• Elizabeth Holmes prosecution-conviction, and civil lawsuits

    From Daniel M@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 13 21:44:17 2023
    for those of you knowledgeable of the case,

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable
    defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should have been thrown out of court. If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the wealthy
    investors would have early turned their heads away.

    Any other thoughts?

    I learned about the prosecution only about 6 months ago upon reading a commentary by Alan Dershowitz who felt the prosecution was weird as
    wrongfully favoring the wealthy investors.

    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers

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  • From Stuart O. Bronstein@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Wed Jun 14 12:01:31 2023
    Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    for those of you knowledgeable of the case,

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an
    indispensable defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the
    criminal prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was
    discriminatory and should have been thrown out of court. If she
    had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford),
    the wealthy investors would have early turned their heads away.

    Except in the case of a conspiracy, there's no such thing as an
    indispensible defendant in a criminal case. A prosecutor has
    discretion as to whether to charge someone for a crime. Perhaps they
    thought that Stanford was as much a victim as anybody else.

    Any other thoughts?

    I learned about the prosecution only about 6 months ago upon
    reading a commentary by Alan Dershowitz who felt the prosecution
    was weird as wrongfully favoring the wealthy investors.

    Dershowitz used to have a good reputation. But in recent years he
    seems to have gone off the rails and has been spouting all sorts of
    nonsense.

    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a
    mass of Daubert stuff.

    The appeal is unlikely to be successful. But you never know.


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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Wed Jun 14 12:06:06 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:44:17 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    for those of you knowledgeable of the case,

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable >defendant which was never prosecuted,

    I'm rather knowledgeable about this. AIUI prosecutors are not supposed
    to prosecute unless they expect to get a conviction, and I'm sure that
    means many people etc. who are guilty are never prosecuted.

    therefore the criminal prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory

    Not all discrimination is illegal. Only when it's based on race,
    religion, national origin or in some jurisdictions sex, physical
    handicap, age, sexual identity... I can't keep track, but being the only
    one prosecuted is not in the list.

    and should have been thrown out of court. If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the wealthy investors would have early turned their heads away.

    So is Stanford supposed to know in advance that she will do bad things,
    and then not admit her? Is every college responsible for what their
    students do? She didn't even graduate, that is, they never awarded her
    a degree. Channing Robertson appears to have endorsed her. Does that
    make the university liable? Or even him if he didn't lie about
    anything. Was he prosecuted?

    Any other thoughts?

    I learned about the prosecution only about 6 months ago upon reading a >commentary by Alan Dershowitz who felt the prosecution was weird as >wrongfully favoring the wealthy investors.

    He has said a lot of insightful things, but he sometimes has weird
    views. Maybe he has turned into a contrarian. I forget one of them
    but another was iirc going back weeks that he thinks trump is innocent
    of something I think he's clearly guilty of.

    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers


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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 14 12:04:30 2023
    "Daniel M" wrote in message news:321f0d4d-6cbe-4d6e-a44d-490a127f2f3dn@googlegroups.com...

    for those of you knowledgeable of the case,

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable >defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal >prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should
    have been thrown out of court. If she had not been admitted to Stanford >(thereby sponsored by Stanford), the wealthy investors would have early >turned their heads away.

    Any other thoughts?

    I learned about the prosecution only about 6 months ago upon reading a >commentary by Alan Dershowitz who felt the prosecution was weird as >wrongfully favoring the wealthy investors.

    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of >Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers

    That's like saying her parents should have been defendants since if she was never born, the investors also wouldn't have been interested. Stanford did nothing illegal or wrong in admitting her for admission. Her actions after that were her own responsibility

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 14 12:09:11 2023
    According to Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com>:
    for those of you knowledgeable of the case,

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable >defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should
    have been thrown out of court. If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the wealthy investors would
    have early turned their heads away.

    That's just silly. There's no way Stanford could have predicted that
    she among their thousands of students would drop out and use her
    contacts to commit crime. It's not like they have a course on How To
    Create a Fraudulent Startup.

    In 1776, Nathan Hale was executed for espionage, having disguised
    himself as a schoolteacher based on his Yale degree. Was that Yale's
    fault?


    I learned about the prosecution only about 6 months ago upon reading a >commentary by Alan Dershowitz who felt the prosecution was weird as >wrongfully favoring the wealthy investors.

    That's a closer call and there is no question that the board failed to supervise her. I'm surprised if they're not sued by people harmed by
    the fake tests. On the other hand Henry Kissinger is 100 years old and
    many of the others aren't much younger. By the time a trial was
    scheduled, it'd be too late.

    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daubert is about whether to accept expert testimony, and it doesn't
    take an expert to tell that Theranos was a fraud. If the court thought
    there was a reasonable chance the conviction would be overturned, she
    wouldn't be in prison now.



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  • From Roy@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Wed Jun 14 12:29:27 2023
    On 6/13/2023 9:44 PM, Daniel M wrote:


    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers



    In May, the appeals court ruled that Holmes had not raised a
    "substantial question" regarding the conduct of her trial or shown that
    any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or a sentence shorter
    than the 11-year, three-month prison term handed down by U.S. District
    Judge Edward Davila.

    She is at the federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas which is a
    minimum security facility. It was selected to be close to family and is surrounded by homes and enclosed by chain-link fencing topped with
    barbed wire.

    https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bry/

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  • From Daniel M@21:1/5 to Roy on Wed Jun 14 22:01:38 2023
    On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 12:29:30 PM UTC-7, Roy wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 9:44 PM, Daniel M wrote:


    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers

    In May, the appeals court ruled that Holmes had not raised a
    "substantial question" regarding the conduct of her trial or shown that
    any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or a sentence shorter
    than the 11-year, three-month prison term handed down by U.S. District
    Judge Edward Davila.

    She is at the federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas which is a minimum security facility. It was selected to be close to family and is surrounded by homes and enclosed by chain-link fencing topped with
    barbed wire.

    https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bry/

    Holmes' attorneys never raised a discriminatory prosecution claim over the exclusion of Stanford University as a defendant. This could otherwise have raised a "substantial question" for the appeals court so she could avoid jail pending appeal.

    Stanford intentionally and purposefully created a salient factor in all of her dealings through its undergraduate admissions. In a January 19, 2023 prosecution paper, the U.S. Attorneys said, "There are not two systems of justice, one for the wealthy,
    one for the poor. There is one criminal justice system in this country". How about one for the individual, and one for the schools who install the elites into power?

    I think it's noteworthy for comparison that a wealthy medical CEO Hansjorg Wyss was never prosecuted for his device failures, but he did give Harvard $700 million dollars since 2009. I couldn't find any donations online from Holmes to Stanford.
    Stanford has become a very wealthy real estate developer, operating under the non-profit veil, who could pay off Holmes' restitution of hundreds of millions of dollars to the investors.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Thu Jun 15 08:33:17 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:01:38 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 12:29:30 PM UTC-7, Roy wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 9:44 PM, Daniel M wrote:


    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers

    In May, the appeals court ruled that Holmes had not raised a
    "substantial question" regarding the conduct of her trial or shown that
    any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or a sentence shorter
    than the 11-year, three-month prison term handed down by U.S. District
    Judge Edward Davila.

    She is at the federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas which is a
    minimum security facility. It was selected to be close to family and is
    surrounded by homes and enclosed by chain-link fencing topped with
    barbed wire.

    https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bry/

    Holmes' attorneys never raised a discriminatory prosecution claim over the exclusion of Stanford University as a defendant.

    Because it would have been rejected.

    This could otherwise have raised a "substantial question" for the appeals court so she could avoid jail pending appeal.

    No, because it wouldn't have been substantial. In fact such a claim
    would clearly be invalid.

    Stanford intentionally and purposefully created a salient factor in all of her dealings through its undergraduate admissions.

    Again, you're saying it "purposefully" created a danger by admitting her
    as a freshman undergrad. Isn't hat what you're saying? How are they
    to know who will become a fraudster and who won't? Should they add a
    question to the college appplication: "Do you promise not to lie in
    your business?" No school asks that and almost every student would say
    Yes, even if later he changes hir mind. So what did Stanford do wrong?

    In a January 19, 2023 prosecution paper, the U.S. Attorneys said, "There are not two systems of justice, one for the wealthy, one for the poor. There is one criminal justice system in this country". How about one for the individual, and one for the
    schools who install the elites into power?

    Was she an elite when she entered college? Or does anyone in power
    become an elite? Who should get positions of power? A-students or D-students? Or who?

    I think it's noteworthy for comparison that a wealthy medical CEO Hansjorg Wyss was never prosecuted for his device failures, but he did give Harvard $700 million dollars since 2009. I couldn't find any donations online from Holmes to Stanford.
    Stanford has become a very wealthy real estate developer, operating under the non-profit veil, who could pay off Holmes' restitution of hundreds of millions of dollars to the investors.

    I had never heard of Hasjorg Wyss before. In his Wikipedia article, he
    sounds very good, already giving large amounts of money to
    environmental, scientific, and art charities and to democracy-promoting
    world organization(s?) and signing the Giving Pledge promising to give,
    what, 55% (90%?) of his money to worth organizations. Some people
    dislike the political ones such as the Democracy Alliance, but it seems
    to me, whether those organizations do good or not, from his pov, they
    are selfless gifts.

    The one bad thing the wikip article includes is about his medical
    corporation promoting the use of a non-FDA-approved adhesive in
    orthopedic surgeries. The footnote is to the Washington Examiner and,
    even though there are almost always two sides to a story, that article presents the prosecutor's, the FDA's, and the injured patients'
    families' opinions but does not give the other side, except implicitly
    when it says that his corporation (Synthes) "ordered 60-80 test
    procedures without FDA approval." Three patients died but it says
    nothing about the results for the other 57 to 77.

    I'm certain they thought their adhesive worked, or they would have used
    one of the earlier ones. Did they do animal testing? Sufficient animal testing? How much animal testing? Maybe not only did they ignore FDA
    rules, maybe they were also negligent. (My brothers a doctor and when
    he was in med school in 1962, he complained that the FDA was telling
    doctors for what purposes they could prescribe a drug and when they
    couldn't, and what was permitted but off-label. I suppose he was
    echoing one of his professors, but there are a lot of doctors and
    researchers who think the FDA is overly restrictive. That doesn't mean
    it is overly restrictive, but it slows them down and they don't like
    that.

    At any rate 4 of the officers of the company served short jail sentences because of this but Wyss was not charged. Maybe they didn't/couldn't
    find that he himself did the improper acts?

    When I have time, I'll google his name and look further, but this
    example is not parallel to Stanford in the Holmes case. All you have
    said that Stanford did wrong is admit her to college. Blaming them for
    that is absurd.

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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 15 15:30:03 2023
    "Daniel M" wrote in message news:96a4c5e3-027f-4469-9922-557cf19fd98bn@googlegroups.com...

    On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 12:29:30 PM UTC-7, Roy wrote:
    On 6/13/2023 9:44 PM, Daniel M wrote:


    The case is now in the 9th Circuit. The basis of the appeal is a mass
    of Daubert stuff.

    Daniel Myers

    In May, the appeals court ruled that Holmes had not raised a
    "substantial question" regarding the conduct of her trial or shown that
    any trial errors were likely to result in reversal or a sentence shorter
    than the 11-year, three-month prison term handed down by U.S. District
    Judge Edward Davila.

    She is at the federal women’s prison camp in Bryan, Texas which is a
    minimum security facility. It was selected to be close to family and is
    surrounded by homes and enclosed by chain-link fencing topped with
    barbed wire.

    https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bry/

    Holmes' attorneys never raised a discriminatory prosecution claim over the >exclusion of Stanford University as a defendant. This could otherwise have >raised a "substantial question" for the appeals court so she could avoid
    jail pending appeal.


    There was no reason to include Stanford as a defendant, as there is no
    evidence that they had any involvement in Holmes' fraudulent activities.

    Stanford intentionally and purposefully created a salient factor in all of >her dealings through its undergraduate admissions.

    There is no evidence for this that would stand up in court.

    In a January 19, 2023 prosecution paper, the U.S. Attorneys said, "There are not two systems of justice, one for the wealthy, one for the poor. There is one criminal justice system in this country". How about one for the individual, and one for the schools who install the elites into power?


    There is no evidence for this.

    I think it's noteworthy for comparison that a wealthy medical CEO Hansjorg >Wyss was never prosecuted for his device failures, but he did give Harvard >$700 million dollars since 2009. I couldn't find any donations online from >Holmes to Stanford. Stanford has become a very wealthy real estate >developer, operating under the non-profit veil, who could pay off Holmes' >restitution of hundreds of millions of dollars to the investors.

    I don't know anything about Wyss, but if there is any evidence he committed
    the same fraudulent acts as Holmes, then he should of course be prosecuted.
    I'm guessing there is no such eviden ce.


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  • From RichD@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Wed Jun 21 16:39:48 2023
    On June 13, Daniel M wrote:
    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal prosecution-conviction of
    Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should have been thrown out of court. If she had
    not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the wealthy investors would
    have early turned their heads away.

    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.



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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 21 20:31:46 2023
    "RichD" wrote in message news:d36c89ed-dae3-4373-8867-18fc4e43dd76n@googlegroups.com...

    On June 13, Daniel M wrote:
    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable
    defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal
    prosecution-conviction of
    Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should have been thrown out of
    court. If she had
    not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the
    wealthy investors would
    have early turned their heads away.

    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.


    It's not aiding and abetting if you don't know you're aiding and abetting.
    The investors had no way of knowing she was about to commit fraud.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Rick on Wed Jun 21 21:52:46 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:31:46 -0700 (PDT),
    "Rick" <rick@nospam.com> wrote:

    "RichD" wrote in message >news:d36c89ed-dae3-4373-8867-18fc4e43dd76n@googlegroups.com...

    On June 13, Daniel M wrote:
    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable
    defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal
    prosecution-conviction of
    Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should have been thrown out of
    court. If she had
    not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the
    wealthy investors would
    have early turned their heads away.

    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.


    It's not aiding and abetting if you don't know you're aiding and abetting. >The investors had no way of knowing she was about to commit fraud.

    I think RichD was being sarcastic or using reductio ad absurdum**,
    because the people at Stanford U. also had no way of knowing she was
    about to commit fraud.

    Some people think one should put LOL after a joke and something like
    /sarcasm after sarcasm, but I think it ruins the humor. Still, what's
    that law that no matter how ridiculous, far more ridiculous than this,
    some people on the net will take it seriously.

    **Right?
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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Jun 22 09:04:55 2023
    "micky" wrote in message news:kug79ip608nbc32ilbdnqbms4bksujqin6@4ax.com...

    In misc.legal.moderated, on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:31:46 -0700 (PDT),
    "Rick" <rick@nospam.com> wrote:

    "RichD" wrote in message >>news:d36c89ed-dae3-4373-8867-18fc4e43dd76n@googlegroups.com...

    On June 13, Daniel M wrote:
    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an indispensable
    defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the criminal
    prosecution-conviction of
    Elizabeth Holmes was discriminatory and should have been thrown out of >>>> court. If she had
    not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), the
    wealthy investors would
    have early turned their heads away.

    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.


    It's not aiding and abetting if you don't know you're aiding and abetting. >>The investors had no way of knowing she was about to commit fraud.

    I think RichD was being sarcastic or using reductio ad absurdum**,
    because the people at Stanford U. also had no way of knowing she was
    about to commit fraud.

    Some people think one should put LOL after a joke and something like
    /sarcasm after sarcasm, but I think it ruins the humor. Still, what's
    that law that no matter how ridiculous, far more ridiculous than this,
    some people on the net will take it seriously.

    **Right?
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    Yep.

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  • From RichD@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Jun 22 14:32:03 2023
    On June 21, micky wrote:
    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.
    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting, and conspiracy.

    It's not aiding and abetting if you don't know you're aiding and abetting.

    I think RichD was being sarcastic or using reductio ad absurdum**,
    because the people at Stanford U. also had no way of knowing she was
    about to commit fraud.
    Some people think one should put LOL after a joke and something like
    /sarcasm after sarcasm, but I think it ruins the humor. Still, what's
    that law that no matter how ridiculous, far more ridiculous than this,
    some people on the net will take it seriously.

    https://www.yahoo.com/video/trump-peeved-couldn-t-himself-182937441.html


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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 22 22:16:27 2023
    According to RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com>:
    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.

    I know you meant this as snark, but I'm still surprised there haven't
    been civil lawsuits against the Theranos board. It's their job to know
    what the company is doing, and it is painfully obvious that they did
    not.

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  • From Stuart O. Bronstein@21:1/5 to RichD on Fri Jun 23 12:57:07 2023
    RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
    Daniel M wrote:

    My thoughts on this are that Stanford University was an
    indispensable defendant which was never prosecuted, therefore the
    criminal prosecution-conviction of Elizabeth Holmes was
    discriminatory and should have been thrown out of court. If she
    had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by
    Stanford), the wealthy investors would have early turned their
    heads away.

    If those investors had rejected her fund raising, she wouldn't
    have committed a crime. They enabled and encouraged her behavior.

    They are therefore criminally liable for aiding and abetting,
    and conspiracy.

    They didn't have the requisite intent. They thought they were going
    to make money off the technology, not off the ponzi scheme.


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  • From RichD@21:1/5 to micky on Fri Jun 23 15:54:46 2023
    On June 14, micky wrote:
    If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford),
    the wealthy investors would have early turned their heads away.

    So is Stanford supposed to know in advance that she will do bad things,
    and then not admit her?

    A legal case is preposterous, but on second thought there
    is a moral case...

    Stanford, along with other elite schools, vaunts their exclusivity.
    Not just during the application process, but also the post-
    education opportunities. They use this as a sales pitch;
    "a Stanford degree opens doors!" There are Wall Street
    investment banks which recruit at only a few select schools.

    If Holmes had attended UC Davis instead of Stanford, she
    wouldn't have got the money, for fact. So it's not completely
    wrong to hold them partially liable.

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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 23 21:25:26 2023
    "RichD" wrote in message news:35c1fc41-334f-4a94-93a1-71a49e26bdfdn@googlegroups.com...

    On June 14, micky wrote:
    If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by
    Stanford),
    the wealthy investors would have early turned their heads away.

    So is Stanford supposed to know in advance that she will do bad things,
    and then not admit her?

    A legal case is preposterous, but on second thought there
    is a moral case...

    Stanford, along with other elite schools, vaunts their exclusivity.
    Not just during the application process, but also the post-
    education opportunities. They use this as a sales pitch;
    "a Stanford degree opens doors!" There are Wall Street
    investment banks which recruit at only a few select schools.

    If Holmes had attended UC Davis instead of Stanford, she
    wouldn't have got the money, for fact. So it's not completely
    wrong to hold them partially liable.


    No, they are not even partially liable - because they committed no crime.
    By that logic, anyone who had anything to do with Elizabeth's life and
    career progression (including her parents for bearing her and her high
    school for awarding her the degree that enabled her to apply to college)
    would share liability. Under the law, that's not how liability works.
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  • From micky@21:1/5 to r_delaney2001@yahoo.com on Sat Jun 24 07:53:31 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:54:46 -0700 (PDT), RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

    On June 14, micky wrote:
    If she had not been admitted to Stanford (thereby sponsored by Stanford), >>> the wealthy investors would have early turned their heads away.

    So is Stanford supposed to know in advance that she will do bad things,
    and then not admit her?

    A legal case is preposterous, but on second thought there
    is a moral case...

    Stanford, along with other elite schools, vaunts their exclusivity.
    Not just during the application process, but also the post-
    education opportunities. They use this as a sales pitch;
    "a Stanford degree opens doors!" There are Wall Street
    investment banks which recruit at only a few select schools.

    If Holmes had attended UC Davis instead of Stanford, she
    wouldn't have got the money, for fact. So it's not completely
    wrong to hold them partially liable.

    If she were known to Stanford to have cheated in high school,
    plagiarized or had someone write her papers, had someone take her school
    tests or SATs for her, of if she were known to have committed crimes,
    esp. property crimes like shoplifting or forged checks, or even maybe if
    she were known to abuse her parents or torture cats or fight with
    classmates (maybe, because the last group is of sins that don't involve cheating or money), but they admitted her because she was great at
    hockey, or because her SATs** were so high, or because her grades were
    so high, then I can see the possibility of your argument for moral
    liability. But I haven't read that she did any of that bad stuff, and certainly not that Stanford knew about her having done some. So to the
    school she was no more a moral risk than other freshmen.


    **I got into only one law school, and it was I think because my LSATs
    were so high, 733, even though my college record was mediocre or worse.
    They won't make that mistake again. :-(

    --
    I think you can tell, but just to be sure:
    I am not a lawyer.

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  • From Daniel M@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 25 22:11:59 2023
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff,
    VS.

    ELIZABETH HOLMES
    Defendants

    PARODY ORDER OF ACQUITTAL

    The defendant Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 11 years in prison in respect to her inventions and imagination of handy medical diagnostic devices, which could do extensive analyses from a single drop of blood instead of
    having to draw large samples of patients’ blood into test tubes.
    Numerous investors brought in over a $9 billion dollars to support her venture. Since the existing technology for analyzing the small amount of blood was not adequately developed yet, Elizabeth was charged with bilking them for their money.
    Upon further analysis of the case, there is no evidence that the investors, jurors, and prosecutors had been screened for a common Santa Clara County malady variously known as “False Goddess Syndrome”, which here reduces to persecution of Ms. Holmes
    because they worshipped her as a young goddess from Stanford undergraduate school. The investor “victims” evidently paid monetary penance to her as a goddess in their financial spending. The word “spending” here is not the same as “financial
    loss”, because the investors freely and voluntarily spent their money on their religiosity.
    We question whether the United States Attorneys should be permitted to move the United States Courts back to the Dark Ages.
    Ms. Holmes is undoubtedly a genius. What this means is she constantly lives in a sea of morons. It gets old. It is true that to some extent she may have played them. In U.S. society, genius is not always funded, while stupidity generally is.
    From Ms. Holmes’ beauty-contest appearance, it appears that Stanford University admitted her to their undergraduate school under their secret “beauty contest” admission policy. This presumably improved her income capacity from investors and
    Stanford’s future donations. But Stanford was never made a criminal defendant along with her.
    The case against Elizabeth Holmes is therefore dismissed for failure to join Stanford University as a defendant. Defendant Elizaabeth Holmes is ordered acquitted and discharged. The investors are ordered to pay millions of dollars to this Usenet
    poster Daniel Myers (Daniel M).

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Tue Jul 4 22:24:43 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:


    The case against Elizabeth Holmes is therefore dismissed for failure to join Stanford University as a defendant. Defendant Elizaabeth Holmes is ordered acquitted and discharged. The investors are ordered to pay millions of dollars to this Usenet
    poster Daniel Myers (Daniel M).

    Ths is even easier to do than what she did. I'll have to try it in
    another ng.

    --
    I think you can tell, but just to be sure:
    I am not a lawyer.

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  • From Daniel M@21:1/5 to micky on Wed Jul 12 08:25:33 2023
    On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 10:24:46 PM UTC-7, micky wrote:
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbe...@gmail.com> wrote:


    The case against Elizabeth Holmes is therefore dismissed for failure to join Stanford University as a defendant. Defendant Elizaabeth Holmes is ordered acquitted and discharged. The investors are ordered to pay millions of dollars to this Usenet
    poster Daniel Myers (Daniel M).
    Ths is even easier to do than what she did. I'll have to try it in
    another ng.
    --
    snip

    I was hoping to get back here on this sooner. I wanted to first read the U.S. Attorney's response brief but its due date has been postponed to Aug 17th.

    Here is what I posted yesterday in Yahoo Finance in the article "Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to be released from prison 2 years early"
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-125457642.html?ref=upstract.com

    -- She (Holmes) shouldn't be in prison at all. It's really the fault of the investors as worshippers of Stanford, race, and sex. The media has behaved like an Orwellian AI-GPT hate spin against her. I don't buy it.

    Soon, the China and Russia will have a prosecutorial Chat AI GPT on every U.S. leader in every capacity. --

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  • From Rick@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 12 11:36:56 2023
    "Daniel M" wrote in message news:7d500af3-2628-4a3c-96a2-38ef3cf5f846n@googlegroups.com...

    On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 10:24:46 PM UTC-7, micky wrote:
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbe...@gmail.com> wrote:


    The case against Elizabeth Holmes is therefore dismissed for failure to
    join Stanford University as a defendant. Defendant Elizaabeth Holmes is
    ordered acquitted and discharged. The investors are ordered to pay
    millions of dollars to this Usenet poster Daniel Myers (Daniel M).
    Ths is even easier to do than what she did. I'll have to try it in
    another ng.
    --
    snip

    I was hoping to get back here on this sooner. I wanted to first read the >U.S. Attorney's response brief but its due date has been postponed to Aug >17th.

    Here is what I posted yesterday in Yahoo Finance in the article
    "Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to be released from prison 2 years early" >https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-125457642.html?ref=upstract.com

    -- She (Holmes) shouldn't be in prison at all. It's really the fault of the >investors as worshippers of Stanford, race, and sex. The media has behaved >like an Orwellian AI-GPT hate spin against her. I don't buy it.

    Soon, the China and Russia will have a prosecutorial Chat AI GPT on every >U.S. leader in every capacity. --

    The reason she is in prison is that she committed fraud, which is a crime.

    --

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Daniel M on Wed Jul 12 21:19:37 2023
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:25:33 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbestdotcom@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 10:24:46 PM UTC-7, micky wrote:
    In misc.legal.moderated, on Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT),
    Daniel M <dhmatbe...@gmail.com> wrote:


    The case against Elizabeth Holmes is therefore dismissed for failure to join Stanford University as a defendant. Defendant Elizaabeth Holmes is ordered acquitted and discharged. The investors are ordered to pay millions of dollars to this Usenet
    poster Daniel Myers (Daniel M).
    Ths is even easier to do than what she did. I'll have to try it in
    another ng.
    --
    snip

    I was hoping to get back here on this sooner. I wanted to first read the U.S. Attorney's response brief but its due date has been postponed to Aug 17th.

    Here is what I posted yesterday in Yahoo Finance in the article "Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to be released from prison 2 years early"
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-125457642.html?ref=upstract.com

    -- She (Holmes) shouldn't be in prison at all. It's really the fault of the investors as worshippers of Stanford, race, and sex. The media has behaved like an Orwellian AI-GPT hate spin against her. I don't buy it.

    Soon, the China and Russia will have a prosecutorial Chat AI GPT on every U.S. leader in every capacity. --

    It was not clear here that the previous 3 lines were your comment on
    the yahoo page. Only one comment was visible without clicking Story
    Continues and Show More Comments.

    In Yahoo and here, I can't tell which side you are on. I can't tell
    when you're being sarcastic, versus serious. I thought you were
    sarcastic when I first replied, 2 posts ago, but this one is much more
    obscure.

    --
    I think you can tell, but just to be sure:
    I am not a lawyer.

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